tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post4901582938695555730..comments2024-03-24T13:26:57.317-07:00Comments on Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: DR. ANTON PHIBES’ ABOMINABLY ERUDITE, MUSICALLY MALIGNANT, CURSEDLY CLEVER HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE QUIZDennis Cozzaliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-58829051670348242222011-11-04T01:36:57.834-07:002011-11-04T01:36:57.834-07:00That would be "poor soul."That would be "poor soul."Thom McGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714535798252336806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-49811320263861805542011-11-04T01:31:16.946-07:002011-11-04T01:31:16.946-07:0022) Name a film that is technically outside the ho...22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br />"The Room." Just saw it and honestly felt like I was trapped on another world where everyone around me was insane or acting inexplicably.<br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br />Sorry! Don't know either.<br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged her/his finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on reading/watching all this morbid monster/horror junk?” How did you reply? And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br />I sometimes have this reaction to Dennis's film viewing habits, especially when I walk up to the front door and hear some pour soul on our speaker system screaming their lungs out. But mostly I just accept that he likes to be scared and enjoys the good movies that happen to be scary. Me, I find everyday life more than frightening enough.<br />25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br />SLIFR.<br />26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br />Wait! I think there was a Vincent Price movie I saw on TV as a child where he was the only person left alive on Earth. I think zombies or monsters came after him later, but that didn't bother me as much as the scenes where the wind scattered leaves around empty buildings and houses and knowing he was the only one left. I believe that made me cry in horror. So if that's an AIP movie, that would also be my fave VP AIP movie. Also, the weird people-in-animal masks tableaus Shelly Duvall saw in the rooms in The Shining.<br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br />Jaws with my sisters and my mother in the very back row in a chintzy Glendale CA theater, being so scared and excited and happy and terrified. I'd never seen a movie like that before, and Jaws would be my movie obsession... at least for 2 more years, then Star Wars came along. But that's another story.<br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past 20 years (1992-2012)? Why?<br />Silence of the Lambs was 1991, so I don't know.<br />29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse (from either film).<br />Never seen a Phibes curse.<br />30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule? <br />Jaws<br />Alien<br />Psycho<br />Silence of the Lambs<br />The Shining<br />Strangely enough, I think these days I could only handle Jaws and Psycho.<br />Sincerely, Thom McGregor (Mrs. SLIFR)Thom McGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714535798252336806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-10014739281722449742011-11-04T01:30:55.868-07:002011-11-04T01:30:55.868-07:00I am neither a horror fan nor expert, nor do I eve...I am neither a horror fan nor expert, nor do I even possess a fair-to-middling memory at this point in my life, but as I'm the proud Mrs. SLIFR, I felt like supporting my hubby by taking the quiz. Fair notice: I don't know many of these names/movie titles at all.<br /><br />1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release.<br />Looking at IMDb, I can't tell which films of his are AIP, and I may not have seen any, so I have to admit I know Mr. Price and am fond of him mostly from a variety of TV appearances he made in my childhood. So I'll have to say the episode of "Ellery Queen" he was in in 1976 'cause I loved that show as a kid. (I know, mystery,not horror, but what can I do?)<br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br />A Chucky movie for the current young horror-loving generation.<br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br />Frid. I did like him in Dark Shadows. However, I don't know who the other guy is, so... not really fair to him, I guess.<br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br />According to Dennis, all of them.<br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br />Cronenberg. Hitchcock.<br />6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br />Don't know either.<br />7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br />Them!<br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br />Aliens.<br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br />Jaws 3D.<br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.? Carradine for overacting, Chaney for carrying heavy furniture.<br />11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br />I Know What You Did Last Summer. Honestly.<br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br />Godzilla.<br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br />Never seen one, I don't think.<br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br />Actress: Sigourney Weaver, if the Alien movies count. Jodie Foster if Silence of the Lambs alone counts. Can't think of an actor.<br />15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br />According to Dennis, The Wrong Man.<br />16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br />Don't know either.<br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br />I realized I wasn't early on. I liked some horror-type films, but don't respond to gore very well. Then after having kids, can't even stand to be creeped out.<br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br />Sorry. Once again, don't know him.<br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br />I'm also going with Existenz. I barely know the famous movies.<br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br />Definitely no. Don't even go near there.<br />21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br />90% of horror films do. I prefer either the occasional scare mixed with laughs and tension like "Jaws" or just atmospherics.Thom McGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11714535798252336806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-80333348733319199172011-11-03T12:20:40.779-07:002011-11-03T12:20:40.779-07:0015) Name a great horror director’s least effective...15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br /><br />Declan O'Brien's Wrong Turn 4. Such a drop from Wrong Turn 3 to 4. What was he thinking?!<br /><br />16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br /><br />Grace Jones<br /><br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br /><br />I'm not and when I realized they rarely have artistic value because they're adolescent fanboy fantasizing.<br /><br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br /><br />OK, you really got me on this one. Never heard of this dude.<br /><br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br /><br />Existenz<br /><br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br /><br />Haven't seen it, but I'm sure it's awesome.<br /><br />21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br /><br />Isn't it all about going too far, you sickos?!<br /><br />22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br /><br />Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Chilling.<br /><br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br /><br />Campbell Scott and Sarah Jessica Parker. Seriously, am I right? Did I solve your Soduki?<br /><br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged her/his finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on reading/watching all this morbid monster/horror junk?” How did you reply? And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br /><br />Holy shit you need a new hobby.<br /><br />25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br /><br />Only Sergio!<br /><br />26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br /><br />Despite all my criticisms, the ending of Wrong Turn 4 is everlasting.<br /><br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br /><br />This one time I got inspired to go out and kill kittens afterwards.<br /><br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past 20 years (1992-2012)? Why?<br /><br />WR: Mysteries of the Organism. :-)<br /><br />29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse (from either film).<br /><br />Lost me again. No idea, don't watch those films.<br /><br />30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule?<br /><br />The Shining. Videodrome. Halloween. Dead Ringers. And the '80s Hong Kong movie with vampires and a scene where everyone is in slow-motion due to some gas, that my friend's grandma was watching back in 1989.The Mysterious Ad[ri.an B)e;ta]m.a.x.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14584835204677201232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-7645623510854821242011-11-03T12:20:31.031-07:002011-11-03T12:20:31.031-07:001) Favorite Vincent Price/American International P...1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release.<br /><br />Season of the Witch<br /><br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br /><br />Paranormal Activity<br /><br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br /><br />Jonathan Frakes<br /><br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br /><br />Scary Movie 4<br /><br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br /><br />Brett Ratner<br /><br />6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br /><br />Denise Richards<br /><br />7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br /><br />Milton Berle<br /><br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br /><br />Was there a sequel to Ravenous?<br /><br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br /><br />Wrong Turn 4. But before then it was masterful.<br /><br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.?<br /><br />John Carradine fo' sure. Bluebeard, countless others!<br /><br />11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br /><br />Half of The Blob with Steven McQueen.<br /><br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br /><br />Jean-Luc Godard<br /><br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br /><br />I gave Black Sunday 3 stars, and everything else 2 stars, including Planet of the Vampires which should have been awesome but kind of sucked.<br /><br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br /><br />Kari Wuhrer and Rose McGowan and Liev Schreiber—can someone please make a horror movie featuring his character from Taking Woodstock?The Mysterious Ad[ri.an B)e;ta]m.a.x.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14584835204677201232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-79895250237863062862011-10-31T18:05:49.800-07:002011-10-31T18:05:49.800-07:00David, Jeff: Your timeliness is impressive and app...David, Jeff: Your timeliness is impressive and appreciated! I tried to stay up late last night to finish mine, but I couldn't, and work was just too demanding today. So I'm gonna be late to my own party and post my answers late tonight-- if I don't get torn up by angry trick-or-treaters first!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-89308169969033677892011-10-31T18:02:51.715-07:002011-10-31T18:02:51.715-07:00Just under the wire with 3 hours of Halloween rema...Just under the wire with 3 hours of Halloween remaining in this time zone. I posted my answers on my blog, too, <a href="http://tamiroff.livejournal.com/30625.html" rel="nofollow">HERE. </a> PREVIEW: Almost went for Grayson Hall because I snuck into <i>Night of the Iguana</i> when I was 9, under the impression it was a giant iguana movie. But Joan it is.<br /><br />vw: werseto. Human by day... Seto by night...Jeff Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02556922556611887235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-46766769042788888192011-10-31T16:38:58.785-07:002011-10-31T16:38:58.785-07:00Just wrapped up in time for tonight! It's here...Just wrapped up in time for tonight! It's <a href="http://houseofsparrows.blogspot.com/2011/10/dr-phibes-puts-your-proprietor-to-test.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Marvelous questions - thank you!David Robson, Proprietor, House of Sparrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512358627000077081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-41357644602793014322011-10-31T00:14:43.509-07:002011-10-31T00:14:43.509-07:00Anonymous: Gah! I feel your pain/frustration/annoy...Anonymous: Gah! I feel your pain/frustration/annoyance. A couple of years ago Blogger instituted a 4,096-character limit on comments. It will accept your comments post as long as it is under 4,096 characters. So what people usually do is just break the post up into two or three chunks, depending on how long your answers are. I hope you'll do this, because I'm always interested to see more answers!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-20540699411991876092011-10-30T20:25:47.133-07:002011-10-30T20:25:47.133-07:00Dig the quiz but it won't let me post my comme...Dig the quiz but it won't let me post my comments. It keeps saying "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Must be at most 4,096 characters" GAH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-33150792390417260042011-10-30T10:06:42.112-07:002011-10-30T10:06:42.112-07:00Very late to the party. I'm posting on my blog...Very late to the party. I'm posting on my blog here:<br /><br />http;//stevesmyth.net<br /><br />Thanks Dennis, good as always.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08935604605633501670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-92065072171045281312011-10-29T01:32:55.162-07:002011-10-29T01:32:55.162-07:00I, too, am late to the party, and decided to post ...I, too, am late to the party, and decided to post my answers at my own blog. It's beyond in-depth. There are pictures and trailers and anecdotes...oh my. Check it out at <br /><br />http://frisky916cpl.blogspot.com/2011/10/dr-anton-phibes-abominably-erudite.html<br /><br />if you're so inclined.<br /><br />-JackJack and Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621526029674020006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-88787712610219678252011-10-28T20:46:16.931-07:002011-10-28T20:46:16.931-07:001) A toss-up between The Masque of the Red Death a...1) A toss-up between The Masque of the Red Death and Witchfinder General. <br /><br />2) Hmm… I think that John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness could be redone (just call it something other than Prince of Darkness.) Have it be a low-budget, independent production and have the entire movie be like the last 15 minutes of the original. Also, although this one has been adapted three times, I think that Curt Siodmak’s novel Donovan’s Brain could be updated. Evil billionaire operating from beyond the grave set in our post-2008 economic meltdown world? Yes please. And dare I say it: the basic story of Manos: The Hands of Fate could re-constituted into something watchable and mainly intentionally disturbing.<br /><br />3) I’ve never watched Dark Shadows so I’ll say Thayer David because he’s been in more movies, many of which I like.<br /><br />4) There are a number of them, so I’ll just say the 1932 Murders in the Rue Morgue.<br /><br />5) George Romero. His glory days are past but he’s the most important to me. And as well as being a director I like, I’m a fan of the man.<br /><br />6) Barbara Steele, for her hypnotic writhing alone.<br /><br />7) The spider in The Incredible Shrinking Man, Godzilla.<br /><br />8) A toss-up between The Bride of Frankenstein and the original Dawn of the Dead.<br /><br />9) Jaws: The Revenge.<br /><br />10) John Carradine.<br /><br />11) Wes Craven’s New Nightmare at the New Beverly on 10/24/2011 and Ken Russell’s The Devils.<br /><br />13) Of what I’ve seen, Black Sabbath. <br /><br />14) Boris Karloff and Linda Blair (and I’m putting Linda Blair because she needs more appreciation and a comeback role.)<br /><br />15) Since I mentioned Romero, I would say Diary of the Dead. It’s awkward and its point is muddled.<br /><br />16) Joan Bennett.<br /><br />17) When I was a teenager (when else?) By that time, film and TV had inundated me to the point of a post-modern state of desensitization, but horror was the only Film/TV genre that could puncture through my bubble of indifference. Now that I’m older and more mature, many different types of films can affect me, but I still find that horror films have the most immediacy for me.<br /><br />18) I haven’t seen any Bert I Gordon movies outside of Mystery Science Theater 3000, so I’ll refrain from answering.<br /><br />19) The Innocents, Raw Meat and The Loved Ones (2009.) <br /><br />20) No. The Human Centipede can eat poo for all I care.<br /><br />21) The Human Centipede 2.<br /><br />22) Since I saw it recently, Martha Marcy May Marlene. It’s a psychological drama, but it’s unnerving and made me feel ashamed to be a man.<br /><br />23) Whomever Dennis likes more.<br /><br />24) Although this doesn’t relate to a horror film, I remember that my dad once reprimanded me because I tried to watch In Cold Blood on cable by claiming that I like to watch people being cruel to each other. I just changed the channel, but what I should’ve said is “it’s only a movie, dad.” (In fact, there are many times in which I still do want to say that to my dad.)<br /><br />25) Mark Kermode and Dennis Cozzalio. (Now where can I pick up my Waylon Smithers Award for Best Sycophant?)<br /><br />26) Again, not a horror movie per se, but Shelley Winters tied to a car underwater in The Night of the Hunter haunted me when I was 11 and still haunts me to this day. Also, there’s an image during the climax of The Innocents that still gets me.<br /><br />27) Watching Jaws at home and for the first time with my family when I was 12. My older sister Julie freaked-out during the movie and I’ve rarely seen anyone react to a movie like that since.<br /><br />28) Personally, I think Let the Right One In because it demonstrates that horror films can still be transcendent. But culturally, I have to say Scream. The former-- in an outward, self-conscious and entertaining sense-- epitomizes the sleek derivativeness that permeates current mainstream horror films. In other words: most big horror films are just Scream but they won’t admit it to themselves.<br /><br />29) Darkness.<br /><br />30) The People Under the Stairs, The Horror of Dracula, the original The Hills Have Eyes, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Werewolf of London.John Damerhttp://www.johndamer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-22894087122002573442011-10-28T18:25:04.841-07:002011-10-28T18:25:04.841-07:00Better late than never, and still in time for Hall...Better late than never, and still in time for Halloween! <a href="http://listeningear.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-quiz-time.html" rel="nofollow">My answers</a>...weepingsamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11885871104310819374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-81981821703683031242011-10-27T11:37:31.885-07:002011-10-27T11:37:31.885-07:00As always, I love these quizzes! I'm a little...As always, I love these quizzes! I'm a little late to the party, but I posted my answers on my blog here:<br /><br /><a href="http://kaedrin.com/weblog/archive/002137.html" rel="nofollow">http://kaedrin.com/weblog/archive/002137.html</a><br /><br />Thanks!Markhttp://kaedrin.com/weblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-42065981003562581992011-10-26T00:22:53.545-07:002011-10-26T00:22:53.545-07:0026) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away ...26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br />You might laugh, but the image of that kid facing the wall in <b>Blair Witch Project</b> scared the living crap outta me & still does. YES, I know it's not real. YES, it still creeps me out. <br /><br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br />Heh. Actually getting scared!! Valentine's Day w/a pal, we were at the Arclight, gonna see the new Rambo or the Orphanage. Y'know, something romantic. So we chose The Orphanage, and people actually threw popcorn in the air, yelped and....SO. DID. I. I made a noise!!<br />That was exciting. Nothing usually <br />"gets" me.<br /><br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past 20 years (1992-2012)? Why?<br />Nope. Can't do one. I think some genres are important. I think outta the last 20 yrs, the most important thing that has happened to AMERICAN horror is that we've widened our damn scope and realized that it's not all about us anymore. There's the Japanese, the Koreans, the Spanish, the Frence. These folks have always been there, making films, but somehow we've been ignoring them. Not anymore. THAT'S the most important achievement in the last 20 yrs, in my opinion.<br />Then we rip them off. Oh, oops, did I type that too?<br /><br />29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse (from either film).<br />Yeah....I need to see those films as well. Once again- any volunteers?<br /><br />30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule?<br /><br />1) Nightmare on Elm St (1984)<br />2) The Unknown (1927)<br />3) Masque of the Red Death (1964)<br />4) Dawn of the Dead (1978)<br />5) The Thing (1982)<br />**if one of the prints couldn't come through--Near Dark (1987)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-88367954272759602762011-10-26T00:22:27.674-07:002011-10-26T00:22:27.674-07:0015) Name a great horror director’s least effective...15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br />Oh dear. Romero's <b> Diary of the Dead</b> made me sad, and I can't even get myself to watch anything Argento's done for the last few yrs.<br /><br />16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br />So the part where I have familiarity w/Joan Bennett & dig her in a big way and am not familiar w/the former answers this one.<br /><br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br />When I could recognize Vincent Price's voice on the THRILLER record as a kid. When the Count was the character that I looked forward to seeing THE MOST on Sesame Street. When Alice Cooper was on the Muppet Show & I didn't know who he was but I thought he was AWESOME. When I was reading books about serial killers, Daphne DuMaurier, and The Amityville Horror concurrently...before I was old enough to have braces.<br /><br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br />I've never seen any, so I'm gonna go for the easy answer: the one my grandma was in, <b> Empire of the Ants</b>. I really need to get on that. Man. I'm terrible.<br /><br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br />Ha. No can do. With all the folks I know?? I'm always the kid who has to learn, scrambling behind. But I'll cast my vote for a film that y'all in the Horror Dads wrote about, <b>Who Can Kill a Child?</b> THAT film RULES. <br /><br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br />Nah. What's the point?<br /><br />21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br />Yep. <b>Martyrs</b>. I thought it was truly awful. It was so hateful towards the female body under the guise of having some awkward weird political or social "message." Screw that.<br /><br />22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br />Maybe <b>Funny Games</b>. It's hard. There are a ton of films that skirt psychological horror a bit but go more with another genre like noir or something.<br /><br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br />abstain<br /><br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged her/his finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on reading/watching all this morbid monster/horror junk?” How did you reply? And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br /><br />I shrugged and just said, "Because I like it." To be honest, years later, my answer would be the same.<br /><br />25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br /><br />I like the Horror Dads stuff, the Movie Morlocks stuff...I've gotten so turned off by so many people's egos that I mostly just stick to those and articles that people link me to. Feel free to send more my way!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-89604717892718385222011-10-26T00:20:34.611-07:002011-10-26T00:20:34.611-07:00I know I'm totally gonna fail this, but here g...I know I'm totally gonna fail this, but here goes...<br /><br />1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release.<br /><br />After seeing it last night and being blown to bits by the Nic Roeg cinematography...<b>Masque of the Red Death</b>.<br /><br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br /><br />There was a children's writer named John Bellairs that I loved when I was young and still do. Maybe because Edward Gorey did all the front pieces for the books. Dunno. But those would be great.<br /><br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br />...and I have never watched any Dark Shadows. This is where some awesome boy steps in and goes "I'll show you them!" and we have an awesome horror-fest. Yeah, I'm way behind.<br /><br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br />Well, see above answer. Also, realistically, a GOOD chunk of the Hammer stuff. It's so sporadic. My life is a process of "fill in the blanks" not for lack of trying! <br />I JUST SAW JAWS THIS YEAR, OK?<br /> <br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br />Cronenberg is that guy, I shall not want. He maketh me to watch the multi-textured pastures of body horror; He leadeth me beside unstill waters of insane greatness<br /><br />6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br />I don't think I'm qualified to speak on either. But Barbara Steele, on iconicness.<br /><br />7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br /><b>The Blob</b>. I saw it and loved it. It's too cool for school.<br /><br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br />My gut reaction says <b> Bride of Frankenstein</b> (I love me some Elsa Lanchester) but I'll always have a special place in my heart for <b>Nightmare on Elm St 3: Dream Warriors</b> (although how classic NOES is in the canon, I am unsure).<br /><br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br /><br />I dunno, man. Once Jason goes to outer space...REALLY???? This is a kid who died on the bottom of a lake <i>at a freakin' summer camp </i>. Now, I am all about the Undead having a great afterlife, and all, but...a career with NASA?? Seriously??<br /><br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.?<br />I will have my cake and eat it too. Even if I don't like cake. In this circumstance, nope. They have figured in too differently in my life.<br /><br />11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br />Theatrically? <b>Insidious</b>, I think. I really enjoyed it. DVD...Dunno.<br /><br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br />Err, I have foreign *silent* fiends that I like: The Phantom of the Opera & Nosferatu...then some modern-y ones in <b>Pan's Labyrinth</b>. I liked the Korean monster in <b>The Host</b> a LOT.<br /> <br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br />:( I have not seen as many as I would like. I almost didn't take this because I didn't want to answer this question. This is where I *do* actually feel kinda bad as a horror fan. I've seen all this other crap, but not a ton of Bava. I LOVE <b>Danger: Diabolik</b> though, and need to revisit <b>Black Sunday</b>.<br /><br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br />Nope. Too many eras, too many countries, too many varieties of horror. Can't decide on one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-39781387515410887242011-10-25T19:36:03.055-07:002011-10-25T19:36:03.055-07:001) Favorite Vincent Price/American International P...1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release.<br /><br /><em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes</em>.<br /><br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br /><br /><em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes</em>.<br /><br /><br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br /><br />I've never seen <em>Dark Shadows</em>.<br /><br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br /><br /><em>Friday the 13th</em>.<br /><br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br /><br />David Cronenberg.<br /><br />6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br /><br />Pitt.<br /><br />7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br /><br />Robby the Robot.<br /><br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br /><br /><em>Quatermass and the Pit</em>.<br /><br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br /><br /><em>Saw IV</em>.<br /><br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.?<br /><br />Chaney.<br /><br />11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br /><br />Theater: <em>Demons</em>. DVD: <em>Amer</em>.<br /><br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br /><br />Godzilla.<br /><br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br /><br /><em>Black Sabbath</em>.<br /><br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br /><br />Actor: Jeffrey Combs. Actress: Angela Bettis.<br /><br />15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br /><br /><em>The Ward</em> for Carpenter.<br /><br />16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br /><br />I'll go with Bennet because she was in <em>Suspiria</em>.<br /><br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br /><br />In my teens, when I discovered Stephen King.<br /><br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br /><br />None.<br /><br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br /><br /><em>Sigaw</em>.<br /><br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br /><br />Sure, why not.<br /><br />21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br /><br />No.<br /><br />22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br /><br /><em>Arsenic and Old Lace</em>.<br /><br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br /><br />Is this another <em>Dark Shadows</em> question?<br /><br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged her/his finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on reading/watching all this morbid monster/horror junk?” How did you reply? And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br /><br />It's never happened.<br /><br />25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br /><br />What, other than <a href="http://forcedviewing.com" rel="nofollow">my own</a>?<br /><br />26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br /><br />Marty's hallucination in the bathroom from <em>Poltergeist</em>.<br /><br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br /><br />Showing the "blood test" scene in Carpenter's <em>The Thing</em> to some friends who had never seen it before.<br /><br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past 20 years (1992-2012)? Why?<br /><br /><em>The Blair Witch Project</em>, for sheer influence.<br /><br />29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse (from either film).<br /><br />First film, the rats.<br /><br />30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule?<br /><br /><em>Martyrs</em>, <em>May</em>, <em>Dawn of the Dead</em> ('78), <em>Theatre of Blood</em>, <em>Nosferatu</em> (original)Lackeyhttp://forcedviewing.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-56098724132121000012011-10-25T18:06:26.323-07:002011-10-25T18:06:26.323-07:0025) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy rea...25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br /><br />I'm a neophyte. Tell me and I'll follow.<br /><br />26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br /><br />How about the most frightening image I DIDN’T take away? There’s nothing like anticipating a shock, which you’ve been told your whole life is “beyond the pale”... only to find out it’s a con. <br /><br />Snuff fooled so many people. What an advertising campaign! What a rout! It managed to get banned in several cities, become a centerpiece of feminist outrage for a good decade… and it was all a big NOTHING. <br /><br />The movie’s tag line was, “Made in South America, Where Life is Cheap!” <br /><br />In fact, the “snuff” ending was shot in Hell’s Kitchen, where the film distributor was so cheap that he heated up a little Chef-Boy-R-Dee for the FX shot of the "victim’s" intestines. The dead actress couldn’t lay still. <br /><br />The things they got away with, before the Internet...<br /><br />But to answer your original question, the image that's never left me more haunted is Catherine Deneuve going nuts in Repulsion, which critic Kim Morgan outlines beautifully on her blog.<br /><br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br /><br />Staying up by myself, watching vampire movies after mom went to bed.<br /><br /><br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past twenty years (1992-2012)? Why?<br /><br />Scream. It’s the Onion of Horror.<br /><br /><br /> 29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse<br /><br /> “Work faster, doctor! The acid is descending!”<br /><br /><br /> 30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule? <br /><br />Just for a kick, how about a horror fest based on The Bechdel Test? <br /><br />(The Bechdel Test requires a movie to pass three questions: 1) It has to have at least two women in it, 2) Who talk to each other, 3) About something besides a man.)<br /><br /> <br /><br />I'll choose five I’ve never seen:<br /><br /><br />28 Days Later<br /><br />Resident Evil, After Life<br /><br />Suspira<br /><br />The Skeleton Key<br /><br />The Ring<br /><br /> <br />Do you think I'll like them? <br /><br /><br />BTW, I posted my fully-loaded answers to this quiz, on my blog, with pics and video. <br /><br />http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2011/10/halloween-film-quiz.htmlSusie Brighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748286616377747871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-59680283444345024592011-10-25T18:06:14.330-07:002011-10-25T18:06:14.330-07:0021) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there ...21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br /><br />“Going too far,” for me, is a desired mental destination. If something affects me, it’s done its magic, and my reaction says more about “me” than it does about the supposed line it crossed.<br /><br />A favorite movie that pushed my buttons this way was I Spit on Your Grave. The ultimate in Old Testament Medieval Revenge. Camille Keaton is beyond The Final Girl— she is: The Rapture. <br /><br />The first half of the film, her character is humiliated, raped, broken— left for dead. I could barely sit through it. No wonder this film was targeted by feminist picket lines and boycotts. <br /><br />But had any of the protestors watched the SECOND half? What Keaton does to her rapists is TWICE as sick— and cold as ice. All one can do is applaud. Or laugh, evilly.<br /><br /><br />22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br /><br />Recently, The Debt. Anything on a gynecologist’s table with a Nazi: Horror movie.<br /><br /><br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br /><br /> Lara Parker, by a hair— but I'm not really into either of these girls.<br /><br /><br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged their finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on watching all this morbid horror junk?” How did you reply?<br /><br /> “Can I watch just two more minutes?”<br /><br />And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br /><br />“When I grow up, I’m going to do whatever I want and you won’t be able to stop me.” —<br /><br />That’s what I was thinking all the time. <br /><br />But I never would have said that, because the “violence” that would have ensued would make any horror movie look like a walk in the park!Susie Brighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748286616377747871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-6736541216825110052011-10-25T18:03:18.858-07:002011-10-25T18:03:18.858-07:0011) What was the last horror movie you saw in a th...11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br /><br /> On DVD, probably an all-day Alien marathon.<br /><br /> On TV, the True Blood series. <br /><br /> Movie Theater: Cronenberg’s latest. <br /><br /> <br /><br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br /><br />I lean toward attractive monsters, sexy monsters, French monsters.<br /><br />The one who touches my heart the most is the Beast in Cocteau’s La Belle et le Bête. I would never leave him!<br /><br />However, in the course of preparing my answer to this question, I stumbled upon something I simply MUST watch tonight: Nazi zombies, in Dead Snow. Norwegian!<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br /><br />Need you ask? Diabolik! He robs from the rich to give to the girls. No horror, just pure pre-Bond awesomeness.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br /><br />My boyfriend right now is "Eric" in True Blood, played by Alexander Skarsgard. He and the Nazi Zombies can HAVE me. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Boris Karloff is my classic favorite, and my mother’s as well.<br /><br />For classic old dames, I still get the willies thinking about Betty Davis in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.<br /><br />As for contemporary horror-heroines, my hat is off to Natalie Portman in Black Swan— ballet plus psycho-horror PLUS feathers.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br /><br />John Carpenter, Ghosts of Mars. But I feel bad even pointing that out, because The Thing is one of my favorite movies, ever. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br /><br />I can't choose— they're both inspiring. <br /><br />I’ve waxed on about Joan before, so let me lavish some love on Grayson.<br /><br />Who can forget her closet-case dyke in Night of the Iguana, or her sassy Madam in Satan In High Heels? <br /><br />Their Dark Shadows moments were just one little twinkle on great careers from start to finish.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br /><br />I was raised quite obediently as girly-girl— I thought horror was for boys, along with mathematics and sports. I said horror movies were dumb— or frightful— and as I was “protected” from them as a child, I had no idea what I was missing. Occasionally I’d hear some chick screaming from a monster-rape reel, and I’d grimace. Stupid, stupid victim.<br /><br />In the 80s, around the time I got the Ripley/Vasquez manuscript, I confided my horror-contempt to one of my colleagues, book critic Laura Miller. <br /><br />She surprised me; she told me I was a fool to be missing out on some truly great movies. Laura seemed to know what would turn the key for me… and suggested an early Cronenberg: Brood. It’s psychiatric! It’s sexual! It’s Canadian! I was enraptured.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />I always liked fantasy and fairy tales for their romance and cruelty, I just hadn’t figured out where to find those themes in horror. I also hadn’t yet discovered my horror heroines, women who make things happen.<br /><br />Laura sealed the deal by lending me Carol Clover’s Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, which, in part, prepared me to teach my first class on sexual representation in film, aka "Porn 101." That was 1992.<br /><br />I suppose it's old hat now, but Clover’s writing about "The Final Girl" gave me a way into horror, to see beyond the shrieking raped-wretch. Women get to “do more stuff” in horror than just about any genre. In horror, once you start listening between the lines, gender is a tossed salad.<br /><br /> <br /><br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br /><br /> I fail once again. I guess I know what I'm doing this Halloween.<br /><br /> <br /><br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br /><br /> The People Under The Stairs… it’s so bad it’s delicious.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Rabid… oh, Marilyn. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Oh yes! YES! YES! This is exactly where the toilet flukeworm in X-Files was heading.Susie Brighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748286616377747871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-87986138254161440112011-10-25T18:02:13.428-07:002011-10-25T18:02:13.428-07:00Hells' bells! It's time for Dr. Anton'...Hells' bells! It's time for Dr. Anton's Phibes' Abomimably Erudite, Musically Malignant, Cursedly Clever Halloween Horror Movie Quiz!<br /><br />As you know, I am a diehard fan of the rigorous movie quizzes devised by Dennis Cozzalio at his swoon-worthy filmblog, Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule.<br /><br />I am posting my answers on his blog, along with everyone else who's playing... but here's an extended version, with film clips and photos. Come over and post your answers, it's sooooo fun; more like an interview than an exam.<br /><br />Let me stretch my cold blue hands from their keyboard coffin and begin: <br /><br /> <br /><br />1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release. <br /><br />My earnest favorite is the “The House of Usher.” I like to think Price truly drank the Poe Kool-Aid and gave himself to that role. <br /><br /> <br /><br />However, for sheer “Tales of Pre-Stonewall Homosexual Alcoholism,” the best is surely Price, Rathbone, and Lorre in Tales of Terror. Matt Crowley likely watched this before he wrote The Boys in the Band.<br /><br />I also gasp at “Raven” for the debut of that handsome, full-head-of-hair jackanape, Jack Nicholson.<br /><br /> <br /><br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br /><br />I have a longtime answer to this question.<br /><br />I edited a lesbian magazine in the 1980s called On Our Backs. I discovered an erotic short story in our slush pile that was terrific, a sci-fi suspense-thriller featuring two amazing lovers/adversaries: Ripley and Vasquez. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I called the author on the phone, exclaiming over her inspiring characters. Wow, what originals! She was quiet on the other end of the line.<br /><br /> “Uh, haven’t you seen Alien?”<br /><br />That’s how I came to rent the whole series. Nevertheless, I wrote back to my author, “I still wish your story was the movie; I love it the best.” <br /><br />That was my introduction to slash fiction— I’ve read a lot of it now, much of it script-worthy!<br /><br /> <br /><br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br /><br /> <br /><br />Barney Barney Barney! I wasn't supposed to watch “Dark Shadows,” and it was the only soap I was interested in as a child. Frid's character and those pretty ladies’ décolletage are what stayed with me.<br /><br /> <br /><br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br /><br />My glaring omission is The Exorcist. I read the book in broad daylight at fourteen and scared myself so badly I couldn’t sleep. I remember seeing the lines of people waiting for its debut at the movie theater in Westwood, and I thought, “No, I can’t take it, I can’t.” <br /><br /> <br /><br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br /><br /> David Cronenberg.<br /><br /> But my favorite "horror" director not especially connected with horror is Roman Polanski.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> 6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Barbara’s face is so memorable, that British porcelain in Italian camp. She worked with Fellini, right? You have to love a Felliniesque horror vamp.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> 7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br />I never saw the movie, but the poster holds a special place in my heart: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. <br /><br />For sheer pathos, Frankenstein's monster, in his scene with the little girl.<br /><br /> <br /><br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br /><br />Silence of the Lambs, although I don’t know if others would agree it is a “classic" horror pic, nor do many people remember it was a sequel.<br /><br />I am revealing my love of thrillers and crime (which I consume far more than horror) and All Things Jodie.<br /><br />After that, Alien 2.<br /><br /> <br /><br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br /><br />I am inadequate to this task. The last time I was stunned by the end of a franchise was when Julie Andrews stopped making G-rated movies.<br /><br /> <br /><br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.?<br /><br /> Chaney, absolutely, I love The Werewolf— and he made me cry in Mice and Men.Susie Brighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11748286616377747871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-19870259069602695872011-10-25T12:34:50.659-07:002011-10-25T12:34:50.659-07:0016) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?
Joan Bennett
1...16) Grayson Hall or Joan Bennett?<br /><br />Joan Bennett<br /><br />17) When did you realize that you were a fan of the horror genre? And if you’re not, when did you realize you weren’t?<br /><br />Ten years old. It was Night of the Living Dead that did it. <br /><br />18) Favorite Bert I. Gordon (B.I.G.) movie.<br /><br />The Mad Bomber<br /><br />19) Name an obscure horror favorite that you wish more people knew about.<br /><br />Pretty Poison, maybe, or Let’s Scare Jessica to Death<br /><br />20) The Human Centipede-- yes or no?<br /><br />None for me, thanks.<br /><br />21) And while we’re in the neighborhood, is there a horror film you can think of that you felt “went too far”?<br /><br />The animal mutilation in Cannibal Holocaust is beyond the pale. <br /><br />22) Name a film that is technically outside the horror genre that you might still feel comfortable describing as a horror film.<br /><br /><br />Apocalypse Now, absolutely. <br /><br />23) Lara Parker or Kathryn Leigh Scott?<br /><br />Lara Parker, but only just.<br /><br />24) If you’re a horror fan, at some point in your past your dad, grandmother, teacher or some other disgusted figure of authority probably wagged her/his finger at you and said, “Why do you insist on reading/watching all this morbid monster/horror junk?” How did you reply? And if that reply fell short somehow, how would you have liked to have replied?<br /><br />This never happened to me. <br /><br />25) Name the critic or Web site you most enjoy reading on the subject of the horror genre.<br /><br />Kim Newman, I think. <br /><br />26) Most frightening image you’ve ever taken away from a horror movie.<br /><br />The dead woman in the “Drop of Water” segment of Black Sabbath. Brrr.<br /><br />27) Your favorite memory associated with watching a horror movie.<br /><br />Watching The Spiral Staircase with my mom when I was 12. <br /><br />28) What would you say is the most important/significant horror movie of the past 20 years (1992-2012)? Why?<br /><br />The Ring (original Japanese version), because it’s the flashpoint of the Asian horror explosion.<br /><br />29) Favorite Dr. Phibes curse (from either film).<br /><br />Technically, it’s the hail scene in the first film, but given that Theater of Blood is a Dr. Phibes movie in most respects, I’d qualify this by citing Robert Morley stuffed full of his own poodles.<br /><br />30) You are programming an all-night Halloween horror-thon for your favorite old movie palace. What five movies make up your schedule?<br /><br />Eyes Without a Face<br />The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)<br />Trick ‘r’ Treat (2007)<br />Frankenstein (1931)<br />The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)Vulnavia Morbiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04722740955194993451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-70719477780645238622011-10-25T12:34:26.019-07:002011-10-25T12:34:26.019-07:00I went to the Vincentennial in St. Louis earlier t...I went to the Vincentennial in St. Louis earlier this year. They had, well, everything on the big screen. They even brought in Roger Corman to introduce a couple of films. It was <i>awesome</i>. Normally, I envy the movie events on the coasts, but not this time. <br /><br />Anyway, here are my answers: <br /><br />1) Favorite Vincent Price/American International Pictures release.<br /><br />The Masque of the Red Death<br /><br />2) What horror classic (or non-classic) that has not yet been remade would you like to see upgraded for modern audiences?<br /><br />Ghost Story<br /><br />3) Jonathan Frid or Thayer David?<br />|<br />Jonathan Frid<br /><br />4) Name the one horror movie you need to see that has so far eluded you.<br /><br />I’m told that I need to see Martyrs. <br /><br />5) Favorite film director most closely associated with the horror genre.<br /><br />David Cronenberg is the easy answer (because it’s true), but he’s moved out of the genre, so let’s go with Mario Bava.<br /><br />6) Ingrid Pitt or Barbara Steele?<br /><br />Barbara Steele. Who I met earlier this year. I got her to sign my laserdisc of 8-1/2.<br /><br />7) Favorite 50’s sci-fi/horror creature.<br /><br />The Id monster in Forbidden Planet<br /><br />8) Favorite/best sequel to an established horror classic.<br /><br />Son of Frankenstein<br /><br />9) Name a sequel in a horror series which clearly signaled that the once-vital franchise had run out of gas.<br /><br />Um…Friday the 13th part, um 1? <br /><br />10) John Carradine or Lon Chaney Jr.?<br /><br />John Carradine. Can’t tame what was meant to be wild, Doc. <br /><br />11) What was the last horror movie you saw in a theater? On DVD or Blu-ray?<br /><br />In a theater? Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. On DVD? Wake Wood. Plus several others streamed to my TV from the internet.<br /><br />12) Best foreign-language fiend/monster.<br /><br />The Pale Man in Pan’s Labyrinth<br /><br />13) Favorite Mario Bava movie.<br /><br />Black Sabbath<br /><br />14) Favorite horror actor and actress.<br /><br />Boris Karloff and Barbara Steele<br /><br />15) Name a great horror director’s least effective movie.<br /><br />Carpenter’s Village of the DamnedVulnavia Morbiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04722740955194993451noreply@blogger.com